Category: Motoring Milestones

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …… 130 years ago this week, Frederick Simms, founder of the RAC and Daimler wrote a letter containing the first recorded use of the term “motor car” [8 February 1891]. In 1889, the 26-year-old Simms met and became firm friends with Gottlieb […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, the Edison Storage Battery Corporation was organised, primarily to develop a nickel-iron alkaine battery to improve the feasibility of electric automobile [1 February 1901]…..110 years ago this week, Rolls Royce appalled by mascots on owners cars, […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 130 years ago this week, inventor of the first internal combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber, Nikolas Otto (58) – cover image, died [26 January 1891]. Although in 1861 Ailphonse Beau de Rochas had invented and […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, the first Paris Motor Show was held at Grand Palais [21 January 1901]. It marked the start of a long tradition and the public’s unfailing attachment to an event that soon became emblematic of the Grand […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …….   110 years ago this week, W. O. Bentley entered the automobile industry as a partner in Lecoqand Fernie, London agents for La Licorne, Buchet, and D.F.P. Cars [15 January 1911]…….100 years ago this week, Durant Motors Inc., was organised by […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, a 100-foot drilling derrick named at Spindletop near the town of Beaumont, Texas produced a roaring gusher of black crude oil – the first major oil discovery in the United States [10 January 1901]. The oil […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 220 years ago this week, Charles Goodyear, who patented a process to vulcanize rubber in 1842, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, US [29 December 1800]. Goodyear began his career as a partner in his father’s hardware business, which went bankrupt […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 110 years ago this week, Charles Kettering, William A Chryst and William P Anderson successfully tested the first automobile self starter [17 December 1910]…….90 years ago this week, the first Ford Model A Victoria (cover image) was introduced [14 December 1930]. […]

Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……… 120 years ago this week, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers was organised in New York City with Samuel T. Davis of Locomobile as its first President [1 December 1900]…….110 years ago this week, neon lighting, invented by French physicist Georges […]

Discover the most momentous motor events that took place this week in history …….. 130 years ago this week, the Daimler-Motoren-Geselschaft, a German engine and later automobile manufacturer, which operated until 1926, was founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. It was based first in Cannstatt (today Bad Cannstatt), a city district of Stuttgart) [28 […]